Films like Inception
If you loved Inception, these films offer the same kind of puzzle: layered realities, bent timelines and plots you want to watch again straight away. We picked these by overlap with Inception: shared genres, themes, keywords and our derived attributes, then checked the list by hand. It is an approximation, so treat it as a starting point. Every pick has a TMDB rating of 7.0 or more from at least 1,000 votes, and new releases wait until their ratings settle.
Based on Inception.
- 1
The Matrix (1999)
Film8.2
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and...
US Amazon Prime (rent), iTunes (rent), UK Netflix, Amazon Prime (rent)
- 2
Lost Highway (1997)
Film7.6
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible...
US Kanopy, The Criterion Channel
- 3
Dark City (1998)
Film7.3
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with...
US Kanopy, Tubi TV, UK Amazon Prime (rent), Chili (rent)
- 4
The Man from Earth (2007)
Film7.7
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he...
US Amazon Prime, CONtv, UK Amazon Prime, Google Play (rent)
- 5
Interstellar (2014)
Film8.3
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer...
US Kanopy, Paramount+, UK NowTV, Amazon Prime (rent)
- 6
Ready Player One (2018)
Film7.6
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
US Amazon Prime (rent), iTunes (rent), UK NowTV, Amazon Prime (rent)
- 7
Film7.8
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she...
US Amazon Prime (rent), iTunes (rent), UK Channel 4, Amazon Prime (rent)
- 8
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Film7.7
Marty and Doc are at it again in this wacky sequel to the 1985 blockbuster as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in...
US STARZ, Amazon Prime (rent), UK Amazon Prime, BBC
- 9
Tenet (2020)
Film7.3
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of...
US Amazon Prime (rent), iTunes (rent), UK Amazon Prime, BBC
- 10
Film8.1
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same.
US Amazon Prime (rent), iTunes (rent), UK NowTV, Amazon Prime (rent)
- 11
Memento (2000)
Film8.2
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife.
US Amazon Prime, Kanopy, UK Chili (rent), Rakuten (buy)
- 12
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Film7.5
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to...
US Amazon Prime (rent), iTunes (rent), UK BBC, Netflix
- 13
Total Recall (1990)
Film7.3
Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company who manufacture memories.
US Amazon Prime, Kanopy, UK Amazon Prime, Netflix
- 14
Brazil (1985)
Film7.7
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a...
US Amazon Prime (rent), Google Play (rent), UK iTunes (rent), Rakuten (buy)
- 15
Predestination (2014)
Film7.4
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from...
US Amazon Prime (rent), Google Play (rent), UK ITV, Rakuten
- 16
Serenity (2005)
Film7.4
When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an action-packed battle between the relentless...
US Amazon Prime (rent), Google Play (rent), UK Amazon Prime (rent), Chili (rent)
- 17
Videodrome (1983)
Film7.3
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers.
US Amazon Prime (rent), Google Play (rent), UK NowTV, Amazon Prime (rent)
- 18
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Film7.2
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who...
US FX, Hulu, UK Disney, Amazon Prime (rent)
- 19
Donnie Darko (2001)
Film7.8
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a...
US Amazon Prime, Hulu, UK Amazon Prime (rent), Google Play (rent)
- 20
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Film7.7
An U.S. Spaceship lands on a desolate planet, stranding astronaut Taylor in a world dominated by apes, 2000 years into the future, who use a...
US IndieFlix, Amazon Prime (rent), UK Disney, Amazon Prime (rent)
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